Freedom on the Frontlines : Afghan Women and the Fallacy of Liberation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

AbiRafeh, Lina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Afghanistan--Social conditions.

Women.

Women's rights--Afghanistan.

Women's rights.

Women--Political activity--Afghanistan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

"Afghan women were at the forefront of global agendas in late 2001, fueled by a mix of tremendous media coverage, humanitarian intervention and military activities. Conversations about "liberating" Afghan women were widespread, although women's roles in Afghanistan have long been politically divisive, marked by struggles between modernization and tradition. The politics of Afghan women's rights are deeply fraught and attempts to dispute or change the status quo have resulted in violence. It may appear that we have come full circle twenty years later, in late 2021, when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban once more. Women's rights in Afghanistan have been chipped away, and any gains--however tenuous--now appear lost. This book measures the rhetoric of liberation and details the crises and interventions that Afghani women have experienced over the twenty-year period from 2001 through 2021. Centering the voices of Afghan women, this work details how they view those interventions, and the physical and ideological occupations they have experienced in the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. The Story of "Liberation" for Afghan Women

2. Where We Fit Is Where We Fight

3. The Honor of the Nation

4. Aid as Liberation?

5. Democracy as Liberation?

6. War Has Never Been Over for Them

7. At the Feminist Interface

8. Women's Agency and Resistance

9. Freedom Is Only Won from the Inside

Dari Terminology

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: AbiRafeh, Lina Freedom on the Frontlines

ISBN:

9781476647197